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Darc Requiem on 31 October 2010
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mrstickball said:
zuvuyeay said:

i heard one of the guys in sort of charge on our radio last night and he said its down to the owners about having more games in london and which teams come,it sounds like they might end up having 2 games a season over here

in theory you could have a franchise in London but it would take a billionaire owner  to pay over the odds for everything to work imo,not sure how the nfl works in that context

in reality though would the foreign franchise really be competitive in the true sense,i can't see many of the top players wanting to live in london,unless the money is too good to turn down but you have a salary cap i think

They're going to an uncapped league next year...

Here's the way I look at it:

If an owner, or a group of owners buy and build a franchise in London, they are going to have the undivided attention of every British American football fan. Rather than divide the interest between a lot of teams (like we do in the US), it'd be likely one, and only one, team in the entire nation. Comparatively, every decently large state in America has two professional teams, and a littany of college teams. This would greatly increase revenues for the London team, which would provide a lot of money for bonuses and return on investment.

Oh, and about putting an NFL team in Canada - I think the major issue with it is that they *do* have to compete with CFL, which may fragment the base. I'd think Mexico is a better target.

The Buffalo Bills would be in Toronto right now if Ralph Wilson didn't insist they stay in Buffalo. Unfortunately for the Bills fans, it's a small market and Mr. Wilson is very old. When he passes, you can bet the NFL will move them to Toronto in a blink.

Honestly I think they'd need to add two Euro teams. Why? You could put one in the AFC East and one in the NFC East. That way you could set both of those divisions to play each other for travel reasons. Since you play teams in your own divison twice, that would be 10 games plus the 5 games against the opposite eastern division. Then you'd only have to schedule one other game outside of the AFC and NFC East for each of the Euro teams. Unless they push through the ridiculous 18 game schedule which would push that total to 3. I figure they could put one team in London and one in Berlin.